Security partnership and/or common security?
In: Coexistence: a review of East-West and development issues, Band 24, Heft 3, S. 271-307
ISSN: 0587-5994
In: Coexistence: a review of East-West and development issues, Band 24, Heft 3, S. 271-307
ISSN: 0587-5994
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In: Review of international studies: RIS, Band 38, Heft 4, S. 835-859
ISSN: 0260-2105
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In: Worlding beyond the west
In: The Whitehead journal of diplomacy and international relations, Band 7, Heft 1, S. 89-99
ISSN: 1538-6589
Human security is concerned with the protection of people from not only external but also domestic threats. It is revolutionary in that it focuses on the individual & evolutionary in that it builds on earlier notions of security, adding the human element to those of territory, economics, & governmental authority. This article addresses a number of questions about human security: How does it differ from earlier practices? Does it drive policy change or is it driven by policy? Is it a new idea? How does global integration affect security? The answers provide a conceptual explanation of human security. The paper goes on to suggest some skills required to incorporate human security competently. As evidence of its efficacy, the Canadian experience in promoting human security as a foreign policy goal is described. Tables. J. Stanton
On 17th June 2011, in response to the Arab Spring events in neighbouring countries, King Mohamed VI of Morocco presented in a speech, reform proposals focusing on constitutional changes. Significantly, in his speech the King insisted that appointments in the military 'remain an exclusive, sovereign prerogative of the King, Supreme Commander and Chief-of-Staff of the Royal Armed Forces', while officials in charge of inter alia domestic security agencies will be appointed by him on a proposal of the Head of Government and at the initiative of the ministers concerned. Thus, Morocco's ruler, who has pursued domestic reforms in the past, and has been hailed for his response to the unrest, stopped short of establishing democratic control of the security sector. This lack of willingness to touch upon the role and powers of the security sector is symptomatic of the regimes of countries in North Africa, that have traditionally relied on the security sector, in particular the military, the police and secret and intelligence services, to shore up their authoritarian or semi-authoritarian rule, and that have focused on regime security rather than human security. ; N/A
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In: 'Contemporary Challenges and Future Trends in International Security', Graduate Student Conference of the American Graduate School of International Relations and Diplomacy, June 20-21, 2007
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In Kosovo, the concept of human security is invoked in a three-fold manner. First of all, the international community has applied human security for the purpose of maintaining a fragile peace and stability in Kosovo. For the international community, maintaining the fragile peace meant tolerating the establishment and operationalization of Serbian parallel institutions. This leads to the second application of human security: the parallel institutions claim that their existence is necessary to provide human security for the Serbian community in Kosovo. Consequently, this undermines the capacity of Kosovo's public institutions to exercise legal authority in the north of Kosovo and in other territorial enclaves. Parallel to this, Kosovo's institutions have viewed the human security approach as a means to prove the institutional capacity of independent self-government to provide inclusive security, welfare, and integration policies for all people in Kosovo, with a special emphasis on ethnic minorities. Accordingly, human security is used by different actors in Kosovo to pursue different political agendas, which have not resulted in achieving the primary goal of furthering human welfare and fulfilment beyond mere physical security. To the contrary, the (ab)use of human security has created the conditions for fragile governance, protracted ethnic destabilization, and stagnating economic and human development.
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Mitigating the effects of climate change will require a whole-of-government approach and a redefinition of national security to embrace a more panoramic set of risks. Government officials are saying lots of the right things. But is it being done, and done quickly enough?
In: Contemporary politics, Band 21, Heft 1, S. 53-69
ISSN: 1469-3631
Security Science integrates the multi-disciplined practice areas of security into a single structured body of knowledge, where each chapter takes an evidence-based approach to one of the core knowledge categories. The authors give practitioners and students the underlying scientific perspective based on robust underlying theories, principles, models or frameworks. Demonstrating the relationships and underlying concepts, they present an approach to each core security function within the context of both organizational security and homeland security. The book is unique in its application of the.
In: International relations: the journal of the David Davies Memorial Institute of International Studies, Band 17, Heft 2, S. 135-151
ISSN: 1741-2862
The role of historical change in international relations has been an important issue, especially regarding the `ahistoricism' of mainstream theories. In this context, security studies has suffered from a lack of analysis of the state and its relation to historical change. When this attitude is challenged, it can be seen that the particular `state' of security studies fits into a particular historical logic that structured states which is susceptible to change. A historical sociological analysis of the development of the state-society complexes surrounding security can provide a historical analysis of the state, in order to better articulate its continuing relevance to political life and security, its relationship with individuals and society, and the complexities of contemporary citizenship. The 20th century saw the development of the `security state', where the western state became the centre of security provision, the protector against external threat and provider of domestic well-being.
In: Cooperation and conflict: journal of the Nordic International Studies Association, Band 35, Heft 3, S. 309-320
ISSN: 0010-8367